JP - Hi Guy's, being Brighton bases DJ/Producer super stars that you are! Take us through your typical working week.

FM - Monday till Friday we're studio based, we work quite a strict schedule 12 till 6pm and hardly ever go past our self-imposed watershed. Both of us want to have a life outside of work and this way we keep focused, energised and always at the end of the phone during record company office hours. We both used to work really late either separately or together on previous projects which would always be detrimental to the work, our health and social lives.

We learnt two very big lessons from all those times we fell out of a studio at 6am.

1. The last 4 hours of work were normally pointless
2. If the work you are doing is good, then there is ALWAYS another day to get it finished.. (We Also never drink or otherwise indulge whilst we work, that's how we keep the work rate and quality up).

JP - God no booze at work that must be hell - lol. So how long have you guys actually been working together.

FM - We've worked together in one way or another for the last 5 years, but as the Freemasons - the last 2 years

JP - And tell us about your various guises.

FM - That would be telling (winks) - the obvious ones (Phats and Small etc) - We run the Freemaison Label, and Walken is our pet Robot!!

JP - What's been the highlight of you success working together so far.

FM - Obviously watching your work cross from the clubs, climb over radio and then start bothering the charts. I guess one of the most exciting was last Sept, we'd just watched "Love on My" mind build up to chart entry and we had gone on Holiday with a load of friends to Ibiza for our Gig at El Divinos. As everyone was getting ready to go out, the first release on Freemaison suddenly jumped straight to Number 1 in the Buzz chart. We had Pete Tong's show on in the Villa and he was all over it (like a Pitbal on a bit of steak)- Tim from Loaded turned around and went "I Guess that's the next single sorted then" - The record in question was "Watchin"

JP - What do you make of the funky house scene right now and the quality and variety of music that's out there.

FM - It's exciting... All of a sudden it seems Ok to admit you like a good vocal or musical hook again... I think when the electronics start crossing over just a little , but keeping the tempo and music in there, the genre will gather even more pace

JP - Are you staying true to the sounds of say "Watch'in", "Love On My Mind" or do you see you're your sounds evolving.

FM - Our sound will defiantly evolve, but we can promise that it won't de-volve into 1 note tracks containing a series of bleepy noises from an old Atari games console that scare small children. We wholeheartedly believe that it is the musical changes either the chords or the way a melody sits across a transition, that (along with serious rhythm) really move people in music and that is one thing we always try to bring to our productions.

JP - What do you make of the whole minimal scene.

FM - The underground is vital to all forms of music. The electronic scene now is clashing techno with house with electonica and some of the results are beautiful and others just completely powerful. A lot of it however is just fodder with a shorter shelf life than a Pret-A-Manger sandwich.... It sounds fresh right now, but I see one serious problem ahead. It is now SO easy to make a half decent electro-house record, musically they tend to rely on one chord or riff and producers just seem to be basking in the luxury of the fresh interest instead of sitting down and writing great hooks, whether it be sonic or melodic. It is still VERY hard to make a great electronic house record and once the sounds moves away from being new to becoming familiar, it will suddenly dawn on people that most of these records last 2 weeks before another one with an almost exact template comes along to replace it. This has happened before, Prog house disappeared right up it's own back passage a few years ago and unless the Depeche Modes, Kraftwerks, Vince Clarkes' and Giorgio Morodor's of this genre make themselves known quite quickly - this will do the same!! Technology has always dictated the fashionable sound but that doesn't mean it should control it... Human Inspiration is the key!!

JP - What CD is getting air time in your car right now.

FM - I don't drive , but Marvin Gaye's "what's going on" has been on a lot in Brighton's Hottest summer for years at home

JP - CD or Vinyl

FM - Vinyl sounds wonderful but CD means your arms don't drop to your knees after 10 years on the road

JP - PC or Mac

FM - Mac... We both like the best things in life

JP - Hardware or Software

for making electronic music - Software - for mastering it or recording anything from the outside world - Hardware - there is a whole new generation of people trying to record vocals who don't even know how to set up a microphone , pre-amp and compressor - then they give a singer an awful headphone balance , no reverb and expect them to deliver a world class performance - You might know how to programme beats , but you will stuff all your tracks up unless you learn some of the basics from history ... do some home work.... Oh and to all those boys out there who think they can sing on their electro records - please take your ear plugs out and get the pros in

JP - What your big 5 tracks are doing it for you right now.

FM - We've just completed a load of new stuff, so this might seem arrogant, but we've just seen the Ibizian reaction:

Freemasons - "Rain Down Love"

Freemasons - "Atlantic"

Dirty Old Ann "Turn Me On"

Russell's loving "Put your hands up for Detroit"

Wicked White Label we came across of Alanis Morrisette's "Un-invited"

JP - Have you ever play Pacha : London before.

FM - Nope, but we've heard it's wicked, so we're bringing half of Brighton up for a right old laugh.

JP - Are you also looking forward to making your début at Plush Dafunk's Launch party at Pacha?

FM - Launch parties are always great as everyone gets there wanting a party - can't wait!!

JP - What's your involvement over in Ibiza this year?

FM - I am writing this in Mallorca, recovering from playing Space at Carl Cox's birthday party and El Divinos for Miss moneypennys'. The energy of that island gets you the moment you get out of the airport! - 3 more gigs to go in the Balearics before the end of the season. I have just scratched the word "liver" off my donor card

JP - Haven't we all - What's in the production pipeline for the Freemasons..

FM - Plenty - we're about 3 weeks away from completing and mixing a whole load of material , with a hybrid compilation/artist album ready end of the summer - we won't stop there and the winter will be taken up with a whole host of writing for next year

JP - Can we expect any new material from you guys to get aired at PD

FM - Oh yes! Listen out for an ethereal female vocal sat over a nice deep track that breaks towards the middle into beautiful chords with a wonderful piece of sax over the top - don't leave the dancefloor - we nearly had people in tears with this one at El Divinos. Plenty more where that came from to. We've just remixed Beyonce's new single, so it will get it's first London Airing that night :)

JP - Bring it on - What DJ rocks your world.

FM - The one's that spend every minute they play wanting and making sure that their crowd (who have paid good money to see them) get fully entertained and leave with a huge smile on their face - The king of these is without doubt Carl Cox - if anyone deserved the super-star status it is him... I don't like hard Techno, but you can't keep still when he's on the decks

JP - Anything else you'd like to plug feel free.

FM - Please , Please , Please stop file sharing.. It is an un-known fact that it costs about £1 per single on the first week of release (paid to the retailers as a legal back-hand) to get them racked in the HMVs of this world - also thanks to illegal downloads and cd burners, it now only takes 7,000 copies a week to make it into the top 20..... now , EVERY artist loses money unless you have a top 5 record when they release a single.... It is human nature for everyone to want something for nothing, but if you want independent genres like dance music to continue, the producers have to be able to make money.... If I came round and nicked a quid off you every time you downloaded a track illegally, you'd call the Police - you are doing the same to us..... Get your music from itunes or legal sites.... or watch as good music disappears and you end up with the top 40 full of US artists and the runners up from pop idol.

JP - thanks for your time guys and we are all really looking forward to your début at Pacha.